Ryder turned to press clippings for help with memoirs

The singer launched his career as frontman of Happy Mondays in the 1980s but the band fell apart in the early 1990s due to his addictions to heroin and crack cocaine.

He went on to form Black Grape in the 1990s before reforming his first band and eventually getting clean of drugs, but his years of wild partying left his powers of recall destroyed.

And when Ryder sat down to pen his memoirs, he turned to a stack of press interviews he had given during his career to prompt his memory.

He tells This Morning, "I had a lot of help from reading interviews and newspaper articles that I'd kept and had stashed in my house. (Remembering) the 1990s got a bit difficult, but before that and after that it's ok."